This book is unique in that it will appeal to practitioners, policy makers, and commissioners in health and social care practice and education who buy in to the principles of service user engagement, but who find it hard to know how to progress the practicalities. Based on the set up and running of the unique and very successful Comensus project, this practical and accessible text will provide a framework for building authentic and sustainable community engagement in health and social care education and practice.
Author(s): Michael McKeown, Lisa Malihi-Shoja, Soo Downe
Series: Promoting Partnership for Health
Edition: 1
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 264
Promoting Partnership for Health Service User and Carer Involvement in Education for Health and Social Care......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Promoting Partnership for Health......Page 10
Foreword: Strike up the Band!......Page 12
The Comensus Writing Collective: Notes on Authorship......Page 18
Notes on Language......Page 21
Introduction......Page 24
Part I: The Context......Page 28
1 Service User and Carer Involvement in Higher Education......Page 30
2 The Social and Political Context......Page 53
3 Beyond the Campus: Universities, Community Engagement and Social Enterprise......Page 63
4 Research and Evaluation of Service Users’ and Carers’ Involvement in Health Professional Education......Page 85
5 What Counts Cannot be Counted: Community Engagement as a Catalyst for Emotional Intelligence......Page 108
Part II: Personal Experiences: The Case of Comensus......Page 122
6 Setting up a Service User and Carer Engagement Project: Comensus......Page 124
7 Climbing the Ladder of Involvement: A Manager’s Perspective......Page 143
8 Stories of Engagement......Page 157
9 Making Sense of Involvement in Comensus......Page 186
10 Shedding Masks: Transitions in Mental Health and Education, a Personal View......Page 197
Conclusions......Page 205
References......Page 211
Appendices......Page 230
Appendix 1: Research and Evaluation Planning Worksheet......Page 232
Appendix 2: Terms of Reference for Comensus Advisory Group......Page 235
Appendix 3: Year One Issues and Solutions......Page 236
Appendix 4: Terms of Reference for CIT......Page 238
Appendix 5: COMENSUS: Action Plan 2009......Page 242
Appendix 6: Year Three Sub-Groups of The Community Involvement Team......Page 250
Appendix 7: Year 3 Issues and Solutions......Page 252
Appendix 8: Protocol for the Development of Learning Resources Involving Service Users and/or Carers......Page 254
Appendix 9: Service User/Carer/Public Consent Form......Page 256
Index......Page 260
